Visual control of posture during walking: functional specificity.

Three experiments examined the functional specificity of visually controlled posture during locomotion by presenting large-screen displays to participants walking on a treadmill. Displays simulated locomotion down a stationary hallway, a hallway that traveled with the observer, or a frontal wall that traveled with the observer. A superimposed oscillation specified postural sway in 6 possible directions. With the wall, sway amplitude was isotropic and directionally specific in all conditions. However, with the hallways, sway was anisotropic (lateral > anterior-posterior [AP]), and diagonal responses were flattened into the lateral plane. When the treadmill was turned 90 degrees to the hallway, both the anisotropy and flattening were reversed (AP > lateral), indicating that they are determined by the visual structure of the scene. The results can be explained by postural control laws based on both optical expansion and motion parallax, yielding biases in planar environments that truncate parallax.

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